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William Thompson (New South Wales politician)

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William Thompson (22 January 1862 – 6 October 1937) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Queanbeyan to surveyor James Banford Thompson and Margaret Carroll. From 1878 to 1885 he was a clerk in the Colonial Architect's office, before becoming a quantity surveyor and moving to Ryde in 1898. On 4 March 1885 he had married Florence Single, with whom he had two children. He owned a horse farm on the Hawkesbury River and was a founder of the William Thompson Masonic School at Baulkham Hills NSW, which operated from 1922 to 1972, and the New South Wales Masonic Schools Welfare Fund which, as A Start in Life, continues to assist indigent youth. He was a Freemason and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New South Wales 1914-1924.^[1] In 1913 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Ryde, serving until his retirement in 1920. Thompson died at Ashfield in 1937.^[2]

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1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86049299 |title=LATE MR. WILLIAM THOMPSON |newspaper=Windsor and Richmond Gazette |volume=49, |issue=2891 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=22 October 1937 |accessdate=22 June 2016 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
2. ^{{cite web | title = Mr William Thompson (1862–1937) | work = Former Members | publisher = Parliament of New South Wales | year = 2008 | url = http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/d90ab289bcc86afdca256e60000305f4?OpenDocument | accessdate = 13 September 2014 }}

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4 : 1862 births|1937 deaths|Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales|Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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